Example sentences of "[adv] it be [pers pn] who " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it was she who was shaking and crying , |
| 2 | Perhaps it is us who have made them what they are ? " |
| 3 | Perhaps it was he who was truly destroying this place . |
| 4 | Or maybe utterly sane , perhaps it was he who could not come to grips with the topsy-turvy world they all now lived in , Edward thought . |
| 5 | Obviously it was she who must speak first . |
| 6 | So it was him who sh I think it got , how it got through to him . |
| 7 | Usually it was he who organized their days and evenings . |
| 8 | Under the watchful eye of the teacher the children improvise their shoe shop , and probably it is she who suggests the use of shelves for the ‘ display ’ of pairs . |
| 9 | Three years later it was she who gave him his passport , from the limbo of a long RAF demobilisation process , to the West End . |
| 10 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 11 | Ironically it is they who have a birth-rate which is falling less quickly , thus ‘ justifying ’ that harassment . |
| 12 | ‘ Now it is they who are trying to manipulate us , ’ one reformist said in disgust as he was leaving a caucus meeting . |
| 13 | The price you paid was fair enough , but the net result is that if the business fails now it 's you who 'll stand the loss . ’ |
| 14 | Now it was I who could n't move ; more than that I was n't even able to form an idea of what it would be like to move . |
| 15 | But our poetry started to flow again , though now it was he who distributed the favours : there was no call for him now to bribe me with sex , so this aspect of our relationship was something he kept under tight control , allowing sexual contact only when he felt like it and not just when I wanted it , as in the past . |
| 16 | His memories of that triumph had , of course , been soured by her departure , and now it was he who wore the hungry , yearning look he 'd first seen on Furie 's face . |
| 17 | Now it was she who was invisibly smiling , oddly encouraged and reassured . |
| 18 | Now it was she who looked astonished . |
| 19 | Now it was she who was using the past tense . |
| 20 | This ‘ inverted causation ’ as it has been called , which is a major element of Marxist theory , is to be found in the theory of Asiatic production , in that the subjects of the Asiatic despot are made to believe that they can live because of the blessing of the god-king , the true guardian and shepherd of the community , while really it is he who is living off them . |
| 21 | Creggan held his breath for he knew that though she was speaking of him as if he was not there really it was she who had become something else and that some power was using her to speak to him directly . |
| 22 | Here it is we who are servants . ’ |
| 23 | And Melanie 's aunt might be important if Loretta was going to pursue this line of inquiry : presumably it was she who had brought up the girl after her parents ' death in the plane crash . |
| 24 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 25 | Maybe it 's me who 's who 's . |
| 26 | ‘ Maybe it 's you who 's not up to it ? |
| 27 | ‘ Maybe it 's you who should be on the French Riviera . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Or maybe it 's you who 's massively virile . |
| 29 | Maybe it is they who are being too timid in their ideas and proposals . |
| 30 | Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around . |